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George Clooney Says He Skips Most Old Films, Watches Fantastic Mr. Fox With His Kids

His remarks at the Chaplin Award Gala show aging has reshaped what he is comfortable revisiting on screen.

Overview

  • Clooney told People at the 51st Chaplin Award Gala that watching his younger self now feels "weird" and "hard."
  • He said the animated Fantastic Mr. Fox is the one he is happy to watch with his eight-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander.
  • He explained that these family viewings are fun because his children are starting to understand what he does for work.
  • Earlier this year he showed his son 1997's Batman & Robin after the child doubted he had played Batman, and the eight-year-old enjoyed it.
  • Clooney has called Batman & Robin a bad film and says it taught him to pick scripts first, citing later turns in Out of Sight and Three Kings.